civilization collapse

The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/magazine/romneys-former-bain-partner-makes-a-case-for-inequality.html who knows more about the economy? bain's former new york manager that re portedly has made hundreds of millions or   nouriel roubini and other economists? for all that he is still scrooge - are there no work houses for the poor? as if there is no social contract.   The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people naïve enough to believe him, that man was the  true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody. http://en.wikip...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apollo_(Delphi)#Temple_of_Apollo Carved into the temple were three phrases: γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnōthi seautón = "know thyself") and μηδέν άγαν (mēdén ágan = "nothing in excess"), and Ἑγγύα πάρα δ'ἄτη (engýa pára d'atē = "make a pledge and mischief is nigh"). The first two I had heard - but not the third. I have been told to make goals - targets - quotas. These are pledges. I have been told that I need goals in order to achieve and succeed, because if I didn't have goals I wouldn't do what it takes. What it takes is doing what you don't want to do. A goal is necessary to do what you don't want to do. Like quitting smoking - or selling $250,000 a year worth of widgets.

to create the energy we get from oil by least expensive means - wind - we would need to spend an extra $10 trillion and would require an area the size of three new zealands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_mile_of_oil The world consumes approximately 3 CMO annually from all sources. Source CMO/yr Oil 1.06 Coal 0.81 Natural gas 0.61 Biomass 0.19 Nuclear 0.15 Hydroelectric 0.17 Geothermal <0.01 Wind+Photovoltaic+Solar thermal <0.005 Installing capacity to produce 1 CMO per year requires long and significant development. Allowing fifty years to develop the requisite capacity, 1 CMO of energy per year could be produced by any one of these developments: 4  Three Gorges Dams , [14]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 52  nuclear power plants , [15]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 104  coal-fired power plants , [16]  developed each year for 50 years,  or 32,850  wind turbines , [17] [18]  deve...

"our prediction of small further increases in world oil production comes at the expense of a near doubling, permanently, of real oil prices over the coming decade" http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2012/wp12109.pdf

as it happens interview with jeff rubin - end of growth listen here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3731595/Jeff%20Rubin%20End%20of%20Growth.mp3 buy here: http://www.amazon.ca/End-Growth-Jeff-Rubin/dp/030736089X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337056458&sr=8-1

this is fantastic example of decision making by elites that favors the good of the few over the good of the many and hastens the collapse http://www.alternet.org/environment/155359/conservative_thinktanks_launch_campaign_to_turn_americans_against_wind_energy/?page=entire

Stone age solutions for stone age problems 100,000 year old Steam age Peak oil is the uninvited fairy that curses the princess to die in 16 years Handlemaker Bank is the 13th fairy The Bank can't reverse the curse only mitigate the effects What is needed is leadership and incentives to mitigate effects Without leadership predictable events may result in avoidable suffering and economic losses Banking and investment are core of functioning economies. New economies require new banking and investment solutions. Energy component: Energy is like a currency. Oil, gas, hydrogen, or stored electrical power. Used by elites. New component: Promote positive post oil future by funding and profiting from the post oil economy